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Cuba embraces role as intermediary

[2016-02-15 08:04]

Spurned for decades by Western powers, Cuba is now taking an ever bigger role in international relations.

Brazil vows worry-free Olympics despite Zika

[2016-02-15 08:04]

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Saturday launched a door-to-door "war" on mosquitoes that carry the Zika virus, vowing they will not jeopardize the Rio Olympics in August.

Supreme Court vacancy upends presidential race

[2016-02-15 08:04]

The sudden death of US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia opened a new and incendiary front in the already red-hot 2016 presidential race, one that promises to divide Democrats and Republicans and, perhaps, Republicans from themselves.

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[2016-02-15 08:04]

Somalia's extremist rebels, al-Shabab, said on Saturday they carried out the bombing of a commercial passenger jet earlier this month that blew a hole in the fuselage, sucking out the suspected bomber and forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.

At dawn or dusk, Angkor Wat dazzles

[2016-02-13 08:12]

After 700 years, what remains is more than just remains

Cruises are about much more than sailing on rivers and seas

[2016-02-13 08:12]

Underwater sightseeing in a glass submarine, shopping with a chef for dinner ingredients and volunteering with locals: These are some of the new options this season for cruise passengers.

Pop-up books in China

[2016-02-12 08:14]

From Ming to Alice, publisher creates works of art for domestic readers

Ronshin's original creations

[2016-02-12 08:14]

Pop-up and other special-effect books were first created in the 13th century by academics in Britain to illustrate scientific knowledge, said Guan Zhongping, a Beijing-based specialty book collector.

Japanese actor creates promising career behind the camera

[2016-02-12 08:14]

Shinji Kuroki, 32, a Japanese actor who started his career in China a decade ago, is transforming his career and no longer playing Japanese Imperial Army soldiers on Chinese screens.

Move sought for oldest elephant may be too late

[2016-02-06 08:22]

In the humble zoo, among the small cages of owls, guinea pigs and raccoons, Japan's oldest elephant stands in a concrete pen about the size of half of a basketball court.

'Reparative' therapy finds a haven in Israel

[2016-02-06 08:22]

A leading American Jewish group promoting therapy it claims could turn gays to heterosexuals was ordered shut in December by a New Jersey court, amid growing efforts in the United States to curb the generally discredited practice. But therapists with ties to the shuttered group say they have found a haven for their work in Israel.

Assange should go free-UN panel

[2016-02-06 08:22]

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be allowed to go free from the Ecuadorian embassy in London and be awarded compensation for what amounts to a three-and a-half-year arbitrary detention, a UN panel ruled on Friday.